The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

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a b c d e "A focus on Uxbridge North". London Borough of Hillingdon. April 2011. p.4. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018 . Retrieved 30 April 2013. Lord Bernard Miles". London Borough of Hillingdon. 30 September 2011. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. / Find sources: "Daffynition"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary, making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Riffing on the lexicographic form is as old as lexicography itself. Take Samuel Johnson’s infamous definition of oats: “a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”. In Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), definitions are styled not only as punchlines but also as self-effacing digs: a lexicographer is defined as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words”. Uxbridge is centred 15.4 miles (24.8km) from Charing Cross in Central London; 3 miles (4.8km) from Hayes; 3.1 miles (5.0km) from Ruislip; 4.7 miles (7.6km) from Northolt; 5.4 miles (8.7km) from Slough; and 12.8 miles (20.6km) from High Wycombe. Buses from Uxbridge" (PDF). Transport for London. 24 July 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. A comprehensive list of definitions of some of the words in the English language, some of which are particularly UK centric, but then these are definitions from the British radio programme "I am Sorry I Haven't a Clue". The Uxbridge English Dictionary is just one of the rounds which may feature in an episode of ISIHAC, but I defy "one song to the tune of another' to be published in book form.

Harlow – Ware – Hertford – Welwyn Garden City – Hatfield – St Albans – Watford – Uxbridge – Heathrow Airport". Green Line. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . Wood panelling from a room in the Crown & Treaty public house was sold in 1924 to an American businessman, who installed it in his office in the Empire State Building in New York. It was returned in 1953 as a gift to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II and returned to the house, although the monarch retained ownership. [24] a b c d "Religion". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020 . Retrieved 4 May 2013. Hillingdon Sports & Leisure Complex to host South Korea Olympics team". Fusion Lifestyle. 17 July 2012. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex". London Borough of Hillingdon. 9 March 2010. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 4 April 2011.

a b "Uxbridge History – St Margaret's Church". Alan Rix. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 13 December 2015. As of 2012, Uxbridge had 112,175 square metres (1,207,440sqft) of town centre floorspace. [65] Uxbridge has two shopping centres, The Pavilions and The Chimes (formerly Intu Uxbridge). Much of the town centre is pedestrianised. Just off the High Street is Windsor Street, a short street with older shops. Reaney, P. H. (1969). The Origin of English Place Names. Routledge and Kegan Paul. p.103. ISBN 0-7100-2010-4. . A daffynition (a portmanteau blend of daffy and definition) is a form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). Presented in the form of dictionary definitions, they are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create. Uxbridge ( / ˈ ʌ k s b r ɪ dʒ/) is a suburban town in west London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Situated 15.4 miles (24.8km) west-northwest of Charing Cross, it is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. [2] Uxbridge formed part of the parish of Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex, and was a significant local commercial centre from an early time. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century it expanded and increased in population, becoming a municipal borough in 1955, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.a b c d "A focus on Uxbridge South". London Borough of Hillingdon. April 2011. p.4. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014 . Retrieved 30 April 2013. . Uxbridge, Urban District, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission date accessed=21 February 2019. Uxbridge lies at a mean elevation of 130 feet (40m) above mean sea level. [53] Like much of the rest of the UK its climate is generally temperate, with few extremes of temperature or weather. Census Information Scheme (2012). "2011 Census Ward Population figures for London". Greater London Authority . Retrieved 17 October 2023. John Stears (1934–1999), Academy Award-winning creator of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 and Star Wars robots, born in Uxbridge. [109]

Work began in 2008 to extensively refurbish and extend Uxbridge Lido, and it reopened to the public in February 2010 as the Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex. [46] On 8 September 2010 the 75th anniversary of the first opening of the Lido was celebrated at the pool. [47] Governance [ edit ]Annie Isherwood (1862–1906), Anglican nun and founder of the Community of the Resurrection in Grahamstown, Southern Africa, was born in Uxbridge. [105] Map of Uxbridge, Greater London". Ordnance Survey. Streetmap. 2013 . Retrieved 5 May 2013. [ permanent dead link]. Sherwood, Philip (2007). Around Uxbridge Past and Present. Stroud: The History Press. p.6. ISBN 9780750947947. Of a similar spirit is Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas (Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, 1911-13), which contains such entries as “achievement, n. – the death of endeavour and the birth of disgust”. This posthumous work is generally considered a companion piece to Flaubert’s novel Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), the tragicomic tale of two titular clerks and their grand, hapless plan to understand everything, with the Dictionary of Received Ideas being presented as part of their final project. It seems quite different from the “malevolence” of Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary and its self-confident swagger as a “useful work”; Flaubert’s would-be lexicographers, who attempt to index the world, enthralled by language and by the prospect of registering “truth”, are beguilingly bathetic. In the 2011 census, 72.8% of residents in the Uxbridge North ward answered that they had a religion, compared with 19.3% who did not and 7.9% who did not answer. Of those who answered, 53% identified as Christian, followed by 6.7% who identified as Muslim and 6.2% as Sikh. The percentage identifying as Hindu was 5.4%. Figures for residents identifying as either Jewish, Buddhist or other unspecified religions were each below 1%. [58]